Tug-fastener



(No Model.)

' D. -T. CHAMBERS. f

TUG FASTENER.

1 No. 357,549.- Patented. Feb. 8, 188'7.

WITNESSES: IIWENTOR':

ATTORNEYS.

v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL T. CHAMBERS, OF MANSFIELD, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO FRANK C. SCHIFFER AND WILLIAM H. HOUPT, BOTH OF SHELBY, OHIO.

TUG FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,549, dated February8, 1887. Application filed January 10, 1887. Serial No. 223,903. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, DANIEL T. CHAMBERS, of Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tug-Fasteners for Single- Trees, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and easily-operated device for fastening the traces to a single-tree, and one which will securely hold the traces without danger of accidental dislodgement. It is in the nature of a divided button, one portion of which is integral with a shank that goes in the end of the single-tree; and the other portion of which is formedoftwo limbs, one of which completes the periphery of the button and the other portion'of which extends up parallel with the shank and forms a part of the neck beside the button on which the trace is contained.

Figure l is a side View, partly in section,-

O C is the divided button, one portion of,

which, (1, is formed integral with a screw shank or tang, a, that is seated firmly in a central hole in the end of the single-tree, and the otherportion, O, of which button is hinged to the part 0 by a diametrical pivot-bolt, b, in the plane of the button. The semicircular head of the section 0 completes the periphery of the button, and its angular portion 0 completes the-round neck of reduced size, upon which the trace-eye rests.

In applying the trace the hinged portion 0 of the button is turned outwardly about one hundred and eighty degrees, with its angular projection pointing outwardly and the two semicircular parts of the button coinciding, as shown by dotted lines. The trace-eye is then dropped upon the two semicircular sections with the trace in a horizontalplane, and the trace is then turned ninety degrees to a ,-vertical plane, which causes the two sections of the button to open on the diametrical hinge outside of the trace, while the trace rests inside the button and upon the neck, audits pressure on the angular portion or neck of the hing d section 0 prevents the latter from ever accidentally coming open. To release the 5 5 trace, it is only necessary to twist it and the hinged section in the'reverse direction to that used in applying it.

In making use of my invention the divided button and neck may be made in one, piece with the ferrule, if desired. V

In defining my invention with greater clearness, I would state that I am aware that the ends of single-trees have been provided with pivoted hooks and latches of various construc-- 6 tion, and I only claim in this connection my peculiar device, in which the button is composed of two hinged parts, which lie normally in the same plane and at right angles to the single-tree, and which two parts have inde- 7o pendent neck portions, which lie longitudinally with the single-tree.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a but- 5 ton for a single-tree, consisting of the hinged head portions 0 C, disposed at right angles to their shank and having independent neck portions inside the heads lying flat against each other, substantially as shown and described.

2. The divided button for a single-tree, consisting of the parts 0 O, the part 0 having a head, neck, and shank, and the part 0 having a head and neck portion and hinged to the other partin the plane of the head, sub- 8: stantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The combination, with a single-tree, of the divided button composed of hinged sections, each part of which has a head and a neck portion, substantially as and for the puro pose described.

DANIEL T. CHAMBERS. 

